The fights currently raging under the banner of "education reform" are nothing compared to those battles fought on the fronts of the "Reading Wars." For decades now, educators, policymakers, parents, and communities have battled fiercely over how best to teach reading--phonics, whole language, or scientifically based reading. While Americans have seen pockets of demonstrable success and progress over the past decade, the overall statistics remain relatively unchanged. If the...
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The game "Giant Steps" was described. It was designed to aid children in the semantic development of verbs. The purpose of the experimental evaluation was to determine whether playing the game actually did influence the associative structure of those verbs and adverbs that are "guessed" words in the game. Third graders from two classrooms in an integrated school (60 percent Negro) in Baltimore City were randomly divided (same reading achievement level) into an experimental...
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Davidson's Learning Voyage Grade 3: Sand Trapped! Full Playthrough Davidson's Learning Voyage Grade 3: Sand Trapped! (aka Davidson's Learning Centre Series: ... Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO281eOZTbE Uploader: Lingyan203 Upload date: 20160505
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This final report presents findings of a project designed to develop a model for state-wide assessment of student writing/language skills in conjunction with Utah's Core Curriculum in English/Language Arts (UCCLA). The project tested procedures for collecting baseline data on writing/language skills at grades 3 and 8. The report consists of the following sections: project overview; summary of findings; project design; data collection and handling; results of the writing assessment; discussion...
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GRADES OR AGES: Grades 2 and 3. SUBJECT MATTER: Language arts. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide has two main sections, level two and level three, each subdivided into listening skills, speaking skills, and writing skills. The material in each section is set out in three columns: skills, teaching procedures, and materials. The guide is lithographed and spiral-bound with a soft cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: Some general objectives are given in the introductory material....
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This document contains sample units for each of 21 mastery objectives in grade 3 mathematics. Each of these units includes a statement of the mastery objective, a description of what the student should be able to do as a result of completing the activities, a statement of the mathematical concept being covered, teaching suggestions, a list of materials, and text references. (DT)
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One of eight papers from Project Seed, this paper describes WIN-WIN, a four-session classroom guidance program designed to teach third-grade children a step-by-step process of conflict resolution and peace-making. Participants, program goals, and anticipated outcomes are briefly described. A section on procedures describes each of the following 30-minute sessions: (1) define peace and peacemaking, conflict and resolution; (2) review session 1 and the terms learned in that session, complete...
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GRADES OR AGES: K-3. SUBJECT MATTER: Social studies; neighborhoods. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into 12 chapters, most of which consist of lists. It is mimeographed and staple-bound with a paper cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: Objectives are well-defined, with separate chapters on aims, content, generalizations, and concepts. Each of these chapters has separate sections for each grade. No specific activities are mentioned, although a two-page chapter outlines...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Guides, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Kindergarten, Primary Education, Social...
A study examined the personal, social, and political functions that underlie the reading and writing that young children do about themselves, their families and communities, and their culture. Subjects, five third-grade children attending an inner-city elementary school, participated in an alternative language arts program involving independent self-selected reading of trade books, keeping reader response journals, sharing reading and discussion of self-selected and assigned books and stories,...
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Tortoise and the hare -- Fox and the grapes -- Wolf in sheep's clothing -- Boy who cried wolf -- Grasshopper and the ants -- Fox and the lion -- Two pots -- Fox and the stork -- Leopard and the three bulls -- Wolf and the lamb -- Cat and the birds -- Spendthrift and the swallow -- Moon and her mother -- Lion and the mouse -- Flies and the honey-pot -- North wind and the sun -- Hare and the frogs -- Fisherman and the little fish -- Boasting traveler -- Crab and his mother -- Donkey and his...
Topics: Academic Literacy, Reading Level-Grade 3, Reading Level-Grade 4, Reading Level-Grade 5, Reading...
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether third grade literacy students who receive incentive rewards as part of their instruction will exhibit significantly higher reading habits and attitudes toward recreational reading than they did before the incentives were introduced. The study examined 19 third grade students with fairly high intellectual abilities. The students were given an Elementary Reading Attitude Survey (ERAS) as a pre-and post-measure. Weekly data were kept on the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Grade 3, Student Attitudes, Rewards, Recreational Reading, Reading Habits, Reading...
This document lists the mathematics education goals for the end of grade three in New Hampshire schools. The main areas of goals and outcomes include: problem solving and reasoning; communication and connections; numbers, numeration, and operations; geometry and measurement; and data analysis. Each section contains curriculum goals, purpose, performance outcomes, and performance indicators for each goal. Contains 13 references. (MKR)
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This curriculum guide is intended to introduce elementary school students to hero tales and legends. The stories are longer and the vocabulary is more difficult than other literature curriculum guides in this series by the Oregon Elementary English Project. The stories discussed are: "Sinbad the Sailor,""William Tell,""Robin Hood,""Paul Bunyan," and "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp." The authors suggest that the stories be read aloud during the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Education, Folk Culture, Grade 3, Grade 4, Legends,...
This document is a collection of mathematics pretests and posttests for grades 3 and 4 on the topics of sets, place value, addition-subtraction, multiplication, division, multiplication-division, and fractions. Two forms for each test are provided plus answer keys. This work was prepared under an ESEA Title III contract. (DT)
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Oregon's Food Pyramid Choice Menus (FPCM) require that participating elementary schools offer three to seven entrees, at least two types of milk, and six to ten fruits and vegetables, as well as three or more types of grain products in a variety bar daily. The study discussed in this report was designed to answer two questions: (1) do the menus, as planned for third graders, meet the energy and nutrient requirements specified in 1995 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulations; and (2)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Eating Habits, Elementary Schools, Food Service, Food Standards, Grade 3, Guidelines,...
A summary of the results of language arts and mathematics achievement tests that were administered to approximately 20,000 third and sixth grade students in Department of Defense Dependent Schools, this report provides a description of the testing objectives, assessment procedures, and achievement standards for the project and offers a brief analysis of three of the four tests. Bar graphs indicate third grade students' performance in six language arts content areas and 11 mathematics content...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 6, Language Arts,...
This is part one of a two-part SMSG elementary school text for third-grade students. The development of mathematical ideas in the text is grounded in appropriate experiences with things from the physical world and the immediate environment. Chapter topics include: (1) sets of points; (2) addition and subtraction; (3) describing points and numbers; and (4) arrays and multiplication. (MP)
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A study examined the relative effectiveness of repeated readings and listening-while-reading in promoting reading fluency. Subjects, 20 third grade students in a community in the southeastern United States, of high, average, and low reading levels, had their reading fluency measured in two cycles: subjects who repeatedly read a passage in the first cycle repeatedly listened to a presentation of a passage in the second cycle, and subjects who repeatedly listened to a passage in the first cycle...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Grade 3, Primary Education, Reading Fluency, Reading...
Working on the assumption that when reading comprehension is viewed from a constructivist framework, where meaning grows and changes as the text progresses, categorization into comprehension levels such as literal and inferential will be misleading, two third grade standardized multiple choice test items were selected from a larger body of test items and administered to 24 third grade students. A procedure was used allowing a view of each reader's growing and changing text world, from locally...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cognitive Processes, Grade 3, Primary Education, Questioning Techniques, Reading...
A study analyzed whether a word study instruction based on open sorting would allow children to have more conventions or strategies available for spelling words in their written work. Subjects, all 22 third-grade students in a suburb of a large midwestern city, were given the Qualitative Inventory of Word Knowledge as pre- and posttests. Three writing samples were collected over an entire school year to examine the carry over of the word knowledge gained by weekly word sorting tasks. Results...
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The schema theory of reading comprehension holds that an active interplay exists between the reader's cognitive structures (schemata) relevant to a text and the text itself. A study examined whether children varying in reading comprehension ability showed differences in the deployment of cognitive structures--specifically, whether good and poor readers showed similar flexibility in shifting between familiar schemata. Twenty good and twenty poor third grade readers listened to two short passages...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Grade 3, Primary Education, Reading...
GRADES OR AGES: Primary grades (1, 2, and 3). SUBJECT MATTER: Music. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: This guide contains a detailed outline of the basic music concepts for elementary grades with suggestions for activities which may develop understanding of the concepts. The pages of activities are color coded by grade level. There are three main sections. Section 1 deals with concepts for music education with subsections on rhythm, melody, form, harmony, and expressive qualities. Section...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Guides, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Music Education, Primary Education,...
A course of study to enhance the effectiveness of the traditional third grade reader and workpack as instructional tools was designed for this practicum. The goal was to create a familiarity with the purpose and function of varied print media available within the community, thereby creating a foundation upon which the students (30 third graders) could base their understanding of the settings, themes, and experiences of the traditional third grade reader. The program utilized varied print media...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Emergent Literacy, Grade 3, Language Enrichment, Parent Participation, Primary...
In order to assess differences in social behavior patterns among ethnic groups, videotapes were produced of eight brief social episodes that occur commonly in elementary schools, each taped once with Black actors and once with Mexican-American actors. These were shown to 127 Black and Mexican-American boys and girls from third and sixth grade classes in integrated urban classrooms. The children were shown the films with actors from their own ethnic group and were asked to write what they would...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavior Patterns, Black Students, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education, Grade...
A study examined whether children increased their vocabularies as a result of hearing unfamiliar words within the oral context of a story and observed the oral strategies the children employed as they attempted to define a new word. Subjects, 64 males and 64 females, were from self-contained third-grade classrooms in public schools in a small town in the northwest. They were divided into experimental and control groups. An oral posttest measured the extent to which children acquired meaning...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Context Clues, Grade 3, Language Research, Oral Reading, Primary Education,...
A study investigated whether classroom reading instruction that focuses students' attention on story characters' motives and feelings improves their narrative comprehension. The subjects for this study were 48 third-grade students from 3 different classrooms in the same school. Two different treatments were used: the External Events (control) treatment, which highlights the relative order of the observable, external events of the story, and the Internal States (experimental) treatment, which...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Grade 3, Inferences, Instructional Effectiveness, Narration, Primary Education,...
These official primary trait scoring guide presents details of the 6-point scoring system used in third-grade Oregon schools to evaluate students' performance in oral reading fluency and in comprehension (as measured through retelling). The oral reading fluency benchmark portion of the scoring guide is broken down into phrasing, flow, and pace measures at each scoring level, and the comprehension benchmark portion is divided into sections on the quality of the retelling, main idea(s),...
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A nine-year-old New England girl has to decide whether or not she will help the ornithologist who is searching for the rare white heron
Topics: Academic Literacy, Reading Level-Grade 3, Reading Level-Grade 4, Reading Level-Grade 5, Reading...
Two studies investigate the way in which children make sense of a play and the visual, aural, and psychological components of theatre which contribute to this comprehension. In the first study, 32 fifth graders saw "Don Quixote of La Mancha." In the second study, 45 third graders saw "Monkey, Monkey" (about the Chinese Monkey King). The day after play attendance 15-minute interviews were conducted with the children. The children: (1) rated the difficulty in understanding the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Auditory Stimuli, Comprehension, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students,...
The purpose of this study was to compare student's tested recognition of the Dolch 220 words with their responses to the 220 highest frequency words found by Kucera and Francis in their "Computational Analysis of Present-Day American English." Subjects consisted of 155 second graders and 179 third graders from classrooms in four schools in a large suburban school division in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The factors of grade level, IQ, socioeconomic level, and sex were considered. From a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Grade 2, Grade 3, Reading, Reading Research, Reading Skills, Sight Vocabulary, Word...
This study involved over 4,000 third grade students in a large (90,000+) suburban-emerging-urban school district. The purpose of the study was to examine the effectiveness of curriculum alignment on student achievement in mathematics as measured by the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (IOWA) after one year of implementation in the DeKalb County School System. Curriculum alignment was the treatment or independent variable in the study: the misalignment traditionally associated with classroom...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Enrichment, Equal Education, Grade 3, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics...
United States society is becoming increasingly diverse in the 21st century. Even in rural areas, the population is becoming less Caucasian and African American, and more Hispanic and Asian. U.S. citizens also have much more contact with people from other countries through industry and trade. Considering these factors and the U.S. ideal of accepting persons of all races and national backgrounds, today's children and youth should learn to respect people from other countries. A study was conducted...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Foreign Nationals, Grade 3, Primary...
A STUDY DESIGNED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECT ON CLASS PERFORMANCE OF VERBAL CUES ADMINISTERED AS PUPILS WORKED ON A GROUP READING TEST WAS CONDUCTED. THE SUBJECTS WERE PUPILS IN 18 SECOND-GRADE CLASSES AND 18 THIRD-GRADE CLASSES TO WHICH 36 FEMALE STUDENT TEACHERS WERE ASSIGNED. THE TASKS WERE TWO SUBTESTS OF THE "NEW DEVELOPMENTAL READING TESTS." THE CLASSES WERE ASSIGNED RANDOMLY TO ONE OF THREE TREATMENTS--CUES FOR SPEED, CUES FOR ACCURACY, AND NO VERBAL CUES. THE TEACHERS WERE TRAINED...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Grade 2, Grade 3, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate, Reading...
This nine-week study examined the effect of the Accelerated Reader program on the reading comprehension scores of third grade students in a socio-economically disadvantaged area of West Virginia. Two separate third grade classes, with different teachers, but within the same school, participated in this study. The experimental group of students was encouraged to read and test on books supported by the Accelerated Reader program. The STAR Reading program was used to pretest and posttest students...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Grade 3, Instructional Effectiveness, Low Income, Primary Education, Reading...
J. P. Guilford's "structure of the intellect" provides a system that explains the intellectual abilities of students and identifies major types of productive thinking. A study was conducted to examine whether one of these types--divergent production, which focuses on responses of an individual's own creations--could be enhanced through the use of an instructional cloze procedure. Subjects were 92 third-grade students from three different schools, equally divided into control and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Convergent Thinking, Divergent Thinking, Grade...
This research which aims at sampling the solution of a life problem using the decision making model and showing the contribution of this application to democracy education was planned in accordance with the objective research technique. Student worksheets and camera recordings were used for data analysis. Sixty-six third grade students studying in a public primary school participated in this study. Based on students' responses to open ended questions, content and descriptive analyses were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Grade 3, Decision Making Skills, Democracy, Social Sciences,...
The study reported was designed to test the hypothesis that no difference in reading achievement scores of second and third grade children requiring remediation would result between Ss receiving both regular classroom and Miller-Unruh Reading Center instruction and Ss receiving classroom instruction only. Reading Center instruction took a diagnostic-eclectic approach during 25-30 minute periods four times per week for three to seven months, depending upon how soon Ss achieved reading grade...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Grade 2, Grade 3, Primary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction,...
Recent insights on how the brain functions suggest that people learn in holistic contexts, and that the brain does not work well when presented with isolated pieces of knowledge. A lesson for teaching third graders about letter writing illustrates how such insights can be useful in the language arts classroom. The goal of this letter-writing lesson is the spontaneous generation of letters and their use as a communication tool. The lesson begins by using various ways to establish the theme that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Holistic Approach, Lesson Plans, Letters...
The New York State Education Department (NYSED) has a partnership with Questar Assessment Inc. (Questar) for the development of the 2019 Grades 3-8 English Language Arts Tests. Teachers from across the State work with NYSED in a variety of activities to ensure the validity and reliability of the New York State Testing Program (NYSTP). The 2019 Grades 3-5 English Language Arts Tests are administered in two sessions on two consecutive school days. Students are asked to demonstrate their knowledge...
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Wilson Reading System[R] is a supplemental reading and writing curriculum designed to promote reading accuracy (decoding) and spelling (encoding) skills for students with word-level deficits. The program is designed to teach phonemic awareness, alphabetic principles (sound-symbol relationship), word study, spelling, sight word instruction, fluency, vocabulary, oral expressive language development, and comprehension. Students engage in a variety of activities in the classroom, including hearing...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Program Effectiveness, Educational Research, Decoding (Reading), Spelling, Reading...
Developed by the Oregon Elementary English Project, this curriculum unit introduces third and fourth graders to variations in language. Students are led from recognizing that we associate certain sounds with specific settings to recognizing that we associate certain dialects with specific regions. Lessons 1 through 7 involve the use of three accompanying tapes on dialects of English and the relationships among sounds, signals, and settings. Lessons 8 through 10 are concerned with specific...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Guides, English Curriculum, Grade 3, Grade 4, Language Arts, Regional...
The purpose of this paper was to analyze the initial results of statewide implementation of the PRIME TIME program in Indiana. PRIME TIME is a state-wide program to reduce class size in the primary grades. Mean scores from 65,911 third graders who had completed the Indiana Competency Test in the spring of 1987 after completing 3 years of the program were compared with the scores of 67,987 third graders who had no experience with the program. A difference of only 0.7 points favoring the smaller...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Class Size, Elementary School Students, Grade 3,...
A study examined whether exposing children via reading and discussing books in which the main characters are depicted in a non-sexist manner would have any effect upon the degree of gender stereotyping expressed by the children. Eighteen third-grade children at a suburban elementary school in New Jersey completed a pretest to determine the degree of gender stereotyping expressed by the children. The children were then exposed to a series of six stories in which the characters were portrayed in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Characterization, Childrens Literature, Grade 3, Instructional Effectiveness, Primary...
Recent emphasis on discourse in mathematics classrooms has spurred a line of inquiry about different forms of talk in these settings. If mathematical thinking is understood to be a set of practices that includes mathematical discourse, argumentation, which has an especially important role in mathematics, requires analytic attention. In particular, the following questions arise: How can classroom discourse be organized to support mathematical disagreements that (a) are intellectually productive,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Modes, Grade 3, Mathematics...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences of third grade students' reading achievement who have experienced the Reading Renaissance approach to reading instruction (a comprehensive program that balances a reading curriculum with an intensive regimen of reading practice, proven motivational techniques, and state-of-the-art technology) as compared to third grade students who have received the traditional basal textbook approach to the teaching of reading. The sample was...
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A study determined the impact of integrating literacy and science programs on literacy achievement, use of literature, and attitude toward reading and science. Six third-grade classes (128 students) of ethnically diverse children were assigned to one control and two experimental groups (literature/science program and literature only program). Standardized and informal written and oral tests were used to determine growth in literacy and science. Use of generic literature and literature related...
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This project was developed and implemented in a private school in southeastern Florida to assess whether different instructional strategies would improve vocabulary recall, comprehension, and long-range retention in third graders. The program uses three approaches to provide vocabulary development: (1) contextual use of vocabulary; (2) the use of right-brained assists; and (3) the introduction of prior knowledge from which to build on. Six out of 20 third-grade students who scored below 75% on...
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Elementary school lunches planned and served under Oregon's Food Pyramid Choice Menus (FPCM) system are based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and they comply with the current U.S. Department of Agriculture menu standards for school lunches. The study discussed in this report was conducted from February through April 1997; data were analyzed during 1997 and 1998. The study was designed to answer the following question: Will a 4-week nutrition education intervention affect the foods...
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Thirty-one third-grade students participated in an investigation of the possibility of training or improving intrasentence organizational skills in the context of a sentence anagram task. Sentence-anagram organizational training was conducted on an individual basis with the 16 students in the experimental group. A sentence-anagram posttest was used to measure the effects of training. Results for both the number correct and the number of seconds per item favored the experimental group and the...
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